Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 16
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- Term
- Winter 16
- Lecturer
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle
- Time and Place
- tba
- Audience
- Informatik (Bachelor, Master)
- Tutorials
- -
- Exam
- -
- Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits
- 2 SWS / 4 Credits
- TUMonline
- IN901002
Contents
Contents
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!
Modul description in TUMOnline
News
Preliminary meeting: Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 10:30-11:00 room 02.07.023
Next preliminary meeting at the beginning of the winter term
The seminar will take place in blocks on a few days in December and January
Application
Registration in TUMOnline AND email to huckle@in.tum.de
Only 10 participants are possible.
Preliminary Meeting
Thursday, 7.7.2016, 12:30-13:00 room 02.07.023
Next preliminary meeting at the beginning of the winter term
Seminar Schedule
- Friday 16.12. 14:00-18:00, room MI 00.08.055
- 14:00-14:45: Ali: War and Politics
- 14:45-15:30: Thapa: Capitalism
- 15:30-16:15: Agrawal: Tesla
- 16:15-17:00: Sinha: Food/Psychology
- 17:00-17:45: Lalos: I and Free Will
- Saturday 17.12. 11:00-15:00, room MI 00.08.055
- 11:00-11:45: Gratl: Robot Ethics
- 11:45-12:30: Sikander: Privacy
- 12:30-13:15: Sukys: Epistemology - Limits of Science
- 13:15-14:00: Shaban: Wikileaks
- 14:00-14:45: Usmani: Nuclear Power
Topics
Already chosen topics that are no more available are marked with -
- Albert Einstein
- Bertrand Russell (Mathematics)
- Werner Heisenberg
- Fritz Haber (Chemistry)
- John von Neumann
- Max Planck
- Wernher von Braun
- Nils Bohr (Physics)
- Edward Teller (Physik)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (Physics)
- Andrej Sacharow (Physics)
- Kurt Goedel
- Lise Meitner
- Bella Abramova Subbotovskaya: Jewish People's Univ.
- Alfred Nobel
- John Nash - A beautiful Mind
- Alan Turing
- Konrad Lorenz
- Curta - Hand calculator for Hitler
- Richard Feynman
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Georg Cantor
- Linus Pauling
- Konrad Zuse
- Tesla
- Newton
- Genetic research, Cloning, Stem cells
- Animal Experiments
- Medizine during the Nazi era - Euthanasia,..
- - Doping (Sport)
- Doping (brain)
- Advertisements/Commercials/Psychology: Secret Seducers
- Language and brain
- Milgram-Experiment
- Stanford-Experiment
- Food chemistry/psychology
- The history of psychiatry
- Star Wars, SDI, MD: Missile defense
- - Freedom of the internet
- - Open Source - Philosophy
- Surveillance
- - Privacy
- Women in Computer Science
- Wikileaks
- - Robot ethics, "death by algorithm"
- digital dementia
- - Fraud in science
- Error in Science
- - Epistemology - Limits of Science (Skeptizismus,Kant, Popper,..)
- Watson, Crick and the decypherment of the DNA
- Fermat Conjecture and Andrew Wiles
- Ten ways to lose an audience, "good lecturing"
- Humboldt and the Bologna Process
- How to achieve outstanding research
- - Creationism and Intelligent Design
- Science and Ethics in literature
- Science and Politics
- Political Science - Legitimization of governments,...
- Mathematics of voting systems
- Paradoxa in Mathematics, Arts, Psychology
- Science and Religion
- Science and Patents
- The story of the "IG-Farben" - Trusts and nazis
- Industrial espionage
- "I" and "Free Will" - a myth?
- Arguments for the existence of god?
- Historical criticism in biblical studies
- Science in the GULAG (Solschenizyn)
- Globalisation
- - Capitalism - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" - Communism
- Death Penalty
- - War and politics
- - Nuclear power - yes or no
Regulations
- talk: <= 45 min, ppt, pdf; has to be sent ca. 1 week in advance to me (Email or personally)
- For each session we will possibly announce a student chair
- Paper: ca. 8 pages, until ca. February 2017
- Seminar will be held in blocks end of January
- Fixing the schedule at a meeting at the beginning of the winter term
- Literature and advice per email or personally
- Each student has to participate at ca. 9 talks.
- Possible debriefing in my office
